Very misleading headline. California has a ballot-initiative process where first you satisfy some bureaucratic requirements, then you collect a bunch of signatu

Very misleading headline. California has a ballot-initiative process where first you satisfy some bureaucratic requirements, then you collect a bunch of signatures, then it's on the ballot for the next election and voters might vote for it. What's happened here is that a particularly dumb initiative has... gotten past the "bureaucratic requirements" step, and is now on the "collect signatures" step. Absolutely nothing about the procedure thus far does any filtering for good policy, nor is it intended to filter for good policy. That's the responsibility of petition signers (who shouldn't sign dumb things) and voters (who shouldn't vote for dumb things that somehow manage to get signatures anyways).